<p>Keck has a single tuition at 50k. Penn schools do have slightly different fee structures for instate vs OOS.</p>
<p>^USC is a private school and I expect them to charge the same for OOS and in state. PA schools, OTOH, have in-state applicant/interviewed/accepted ratios and fee structures in line with typical public schools, not to mention the Universities themselves receive state funding. Technically WOWM is correct in the sense that they are all private.</p>
<p>I heard the yield of accepted students from the affiliated college tends to be high. Medical school may make this into their consideration.</p>
<p>I do not know about Texas, however California is flooding the entire system In D’s Med. School class, UGs from her school got beat by the ones from Berkeley in numbers and there are other from other California school. She also met many during her interviews. She has applied only close to home and these kids came all the way to the cold weather during stormy winter in Midwest and they DO have hard time driving in a snow. I do not understand this, but somebody might have an explanation.</p>
<p>People go where they are admitted and Midwest schools are admitting strong students from California without a thought (I do mean strong in the 4.0/38+ sense).</p>
<p>^I do not know about that. All schools admit strong applicants from ALL states. Why California has many more applicants (and that is why they are accepted in much much higher numbers than applicants from other states)? According to what you are saying thel California applicants are much SMARTER, correct? But at the same time, my D. (who applied only in Midwest, to both publics and privates) has noted the disproportionate number of Californians being interviewed at every school that she had an interview.</p>
<p>^ I am not saying they are much smarter but there are disproportionately higher number of California residents who can’t get into their own schools despite having great stats. I know a couple of them from last year who have ridiculous stats but are part of Midwest schools now. One of them found lots of merit money OOS which was making the cost very comparable to in state.</p>
<p>California is perhaps the only state that doesn’t give a huge preference to in- state students. D was told that only 18% of CA applicants will get accepted to a CA school. I don’t know if that’s 18% of all applicants or 18% of those accepted to any medical school.</p>
<p>California does give preference to in-state applicants. (Look at the OOS acceptance rates/percentages at med schools like USD, UCSF, UCSD, UCLA… )</p>
<p>The reason so many CA applicants go OOS is that that there’s just so danged many of them.</p>
<p>^ exactly, California gives a huge boost to its applicants it’s just that there isn’t enough boost to go around.</p>
<p>"One of them found lots of merit money OOS which was making the cost very comparable to in state. "
-yes, he must be a genius. You pretty much need to be a genius, your average Summa Cum Laude’s do not get treated with Merit awards at the Medical Schools. Simply not enough to be a staright A.</p>
<p>From my understanding, most state schools did not admit even with 4.0/40 and the person ended up at WUSTL with money.</p>
<p>“most state schools did not admit even with 4.0/40” - if they do not admit these, who do you think they admit. Nobody?</p>
<p>I think texaspg refers to Cal state med schools. Two cases as I remember, both attending ivy college with a great stats. One said he almost needed to beg before UC Irvine would give him an II . All other state schools in his state completely ignore him. He attended a prestigious med school I’m NYC on the end.</p>
<p>For the other case, he had almost 4.0/40. I heard he was admitted very late to one state school.(even close to waiting list cycle.)</p>
<p>What mcat2 said. Somehow, they are picking and choosing but even the brightest some how don’t seem to make it to cal med schools. May be they are not playing it correctly and applying to every school in state. I found it surprising that some of OOS kids I know are getting interviews while some of the instate kids don’t.</p>
<p>miami,</p>
<p>they admit kids who fit their brand, and there is diminishing returns on scores/GPAs at some point. Additionally, I imagine the state schools were rolling admission and while WUSTL is as well, several of the top schools are not so a kid with top stats who applies on the later side could easily get into schools like Harvard and Penn while getting rejected from many other schools that one would think would chomp at the bit for him.</p>
<p>I applied to the UC schools, and was handled in precisely the REVERSE order of selectivity. I was admitted to the one that was supposedly most selective, waitlisted by the second-most-selective, etc. down through a flat-out, no-interview rejection by the least-selective program.</p>
<p>Outside of URMs, most of the California applicants I know got into exactly one UC.</p>
<p>D. did not have surprises. pretty predictable outcome, I guess, outside of California. No single reject after interview, but 2 pre-interview. We knew if she has a chance at interview, they will not reject her.</p>
<p>Medical schools almost never reject anybody after an interview. This relates to their extensive use of waitlists.</p>
<p>Bluedevilmike - what do you do now? I am wondering if you are in med school, residency or beyond.</p>